Mural surfaces are situated in an experiential dimension with a high rate of technical and artistic experimentation. This essay investigates wall-sized graphics and, in particular, images present from the birth of architecture itself, which stores them based on a two-dimensional narrative project that involves spatial experience.Interior and exterior walls have revealed their primary vocations with some important areas of interaction. On the one hand, interior walls act as windows that – instead of opening towards the real, present landscape – frame landscapes of thought and, particularly with photomontages, allow the observer to intuitively understand true urban theories. On the other hand, exterior façades are characterized as communicational devices immersed in the city: from mosaics to typography, ‘wall-size’ graphics are transformed and express the sense of their own time.While extensive literature has analysed the histories of art and the technique of façades and interior walls separately, the objective of the present study is to combine these topics in search of common threads in virtue of both the common nature of the material – the predominance of the surface over other formal aspects – and, as a consequence, the common calling to act as screens for visual communication

Figures on Surfaces. Murals Between Context and Narration

marta magagnini;nicolò Sardo
2020-01-01

Abstract

Mural surfaces are situated in an experiential dimension with a high rate of technical and artistic experimentation. This essay investigates wall-sized graphics and, in particular, images present from the birth of architecture itself, which stores them based on a two-dimensional narrative project that involves spatial experience.Interior and exterior walls have revealed their primary vocations with some important areas of interaction. On the one hand, interior walls act as windows that – instead of opening towards the real, present landscape – frame landscapes of thought and, particularly with photomontages, allow the observer to intuitively understand true urban theories. On the other hand, exterior façades are characterized as communicational devices immersed in the city: from mosaics to typography, ‘wall-size’ graphics are transformed and express the sense of their own time.While extensive literature has analysed the histories of art and the technique of façades and interior walls separately, the objective of the present study is to combine these topics in search of common threads in virtue of both the common nature of the material – the predominance of the surface over other formal aspects – and, as a consequence, the common calling to act as screens for visual communication
2020
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